is very reluctant in fact to get involved in that and to send weapons there this has to be differentiated a little bit because for instance germany did supply weapons to the kurds in northern iraq for their fight against the so-called islamic state so there is a lot of policy decision and the back in the background at the moment the pressure is on germany not to supply weapons to any of the parties involved in the conflict in yemen and in fact the new government has decided not to do a given arms is big business we know that and jimmy's not the biggest weapon supplies in the was but monica from a business perspective how important is the arms industry for jim and what we were looking at the whole department was looking at a few numbers and i can tell you for example that about fifty thousand jobs in germany depend on the arms industry that may sound like an awful lot but if you compare to the car industry there we're talking about up to one point eight million so that puts it in perspective in terms of sales volume we're talking about six